MEMORIAL OF HENRY A. BREED. 247 



testified to an unabated interest in the welfare of the Society ; and 

 who has rejoiced with us in its progress. 



Yet while we lament the loss of the presence of this venerable 

 founder of the Society at our meetings, we are consoled by the 

 thought that his decease was not untimely, but that he " came to 

 his grave in full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his 

 season," and after he had lived to see the Society attain a growth 

 far beyond what he and his associates could have anticipated when 

 he assisted in laying its foundations. 



John G. Barker, ") 



O. B. Had WEN, > Committee. 



Robert Manning. ) 



Mr. Barker added that for the last fifteen years he had been 

 intimateh' acquainted with Mr. Breed, and testified to his unabated 

 interest in this Society, which he loved next to his church. He 

 always mentioned the name of Col. Wilder with the highest respect 

 and regard. He built the first greenhouse and laid out the first 

 flower garden in L3'un. He was a man of great enterprise, as is 

 shown by the fact that he laid out thirty-five streets in Lynn. He 

 met many changes, and some very serious ones, but always rallied 

 from them, and was alwaj'S ready to promote every good work. 



Robert Manning spoke of the gratification which Mr. Breed 

 always felt in visiting the rooms of the Society and witnessing its 

 prosperity, and of the pleasure with which he received his calls. 

 Only a few weeks before Mr. Breed's death he stopped in Lynn on 

 his way home, one Saturday afternoon, and gave him some flowers 

 from the exhibition of that day, with which he was much pleased, 

 and it was his intention to make a similar call on his eighty-ninth 

 birthda}', which would have been on the 21st of April, but he died 

 a few days before that time. 



The memorial was unanimously adopted, and it was voted that 

 it be entered on the records, and that a copy be transmitted to the 

 relatives of the deceased. 



Col. Henry W. Wilson, Chairman of the Committee to prepare 

 a'memorial of Josiah Crosby, read the following: 



Josiah Crosby was born among the hills of Ashburnham, in 

 Worcester County, on the 6th of April, 180.5, and died in Arling- 

 ton, of pneumonia, after a brief illness, on the 4th of April, 1887, 

 lacking but two days of having completed his eighty-second year. 



